Still reading "1000 Years of Annoying the French" and this bit made me go "EWWW". When the English were forcing King Joseph Bonaparte out of Spain among the things captured from in luggage was a chamber pot. Apparently it is used today to drink Champagne out of in a regiment's mess hall and then put on drinker's head after each toast.
GROSS!
SM
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